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With larger amounts of sugar in production, more workers were needed. This drove the slave market. Plantation owners used slaves to work the fields, harvest the crops, and process the sugar.

This raised ethical and moral questions. Was it right to own another human? As Europeans tried to gain independence from their own rulers, they had to also address the idea of owning slaves. There were protests and boycotts; slaves began rising up, and there was bloodshed and brutality on all sides in the struggle for dominance.

Eventually the scientists in the world discovered other ways to make sweeteners. They used beets and made synthetic sugars. With increased availability of sweeteners, there was no longer a need for plantations, slavery, and the brutality that went along with sugar processing.